Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-03-09
HON. B. K. BRUCE.


HON. B. K. BRUCE.
Distinguished Col0red Ex-senator
Entertains a YanktOn Audience.
A large, refined and .appreciative
audience greeted this distinguished re-
preventative man of the colored race at
the Congregational church last night.
Mr., Bruce surprised sven those most
favorably disposed to him by his rare
gifts OF elocution, address, felicitous
choice of language and natural powers
OF oratory.
The subject Of his lecture was '.The
Race Problem The lecturer treated it
with a oandor, moderation, justice and
fairness which won even his opponents.
He brought to its discussion a breadth
and depth of thought and o clearness of
logic which carried with them over
whelming conviction of the truth of his
position. Els comparison of the condi-
ton of the colored man when freed and
then left homeless, penniless and friend
less to start for himself with the pro.
visions made by Russia for the emanei-
pated serf was startling. Equally 60
was his statement of what had been ac-
complished by the blacks In their
twenty. five years of freedom. The lecture
was ~interspersed With aneodote and
sallles of humor which brought hearty
rounds of applause.
Mr.. Bruce touched very lightly on the
sore spot of the SUBJECTIVE still present
grave injustice and denial of lega
rights to his people in the south. For
the present he asks that the nation do
something to redeem his race and itself
from the perils of their ignorance. Some
day, perhaps, it will be wise for Mr..
Bruce to tell all he knows down to the
bottom facts as to the present treat
ment of his race at the south. The slave
boy of 1859, who was raised to fill the
char left vacant by Jefferson Davis in
the United States senate and to Q
national fame as an orator and lecturer
may yet be called to stand for his peo-
pie in critical times.
He will be always welcome OF Yank.
ton.
PERSONAL.
Fl. N, Sawyey, of. Parker, is in the
CITY,
Thos. Thorson returned to Canton thi
morning.
VIM. Kramer went east yesterday
morning.
Harry Katz returned from Chicago
last night.
Sam Kaucher went to Eden, Dakota
this morning,
E. T. White went to Huron this morn.
ing on business.
E. Ref, banker al Marion junction
was in the city to-day.
g. A. Archer returned from a visit {,
Dayton. Ohio, last night.
Major F. J. Dewits went to Sioux OFT,
on business this morning.
]. a. Baldwin, of St. Lawrence, Da-
kota, was in Yankton last night.
Il F.. w. Gunkle, representing the Ham
burger cigar company, of Chicago. is il
the city.
Ephraim Miner returned last nigh
from Chicago, where he went with hi
cattle train.
Father Keneally, superintendent {
Bishop Martyrs Indian school, is recove
ing from q p%rotracted illness.
Henry 8. Buell. returned this mornin
to his home in Iowa, after q weeks Wis
.. in Yaukton with his father, Fl. e. Buel
L. F. Bushnell, of Columbia. sheriff
Brown county, and j. L. Cherry, deput
: sheriff from Groton, were in the cit
last night.
. A. b. Wicker went to Sioux City ov,
= the Milwaukee this morning in search
y his son Charles, who went to Sioux Oil
u for q visit and got lost in that metropoli
Miss Netha King Lift this mornir
for o visit with her parents in Rap
City. Miss KING will return to b
Yankton college studies at the beginnil
the spring term.
j.. h, Morrill, and wife, parents of M
W, B. Dean, left this morning for th,
home in Rockford, Illinois, having spe
!, several mcnths visiting in Yankton. a
and Mrs, Dean accompanied Mr., a
Mrs. Morrill, as far as Sioux Falls.
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ia chandise business In Tyndall, q GO
live prosperous town and county seat
OF Bon Homme county, Dakota; best str,
corner. 8 lots, building 64xa4, with
NO the stock and fixtures. worth $4,000. '
sell for $1,000 it taken mp before Ma
.st Let, 1887. Address
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